SOA Brunei conducted an Ocean Leadership Camp called AdvocaSEA Camp, which brought together 30 youth leaders from various schools in Brunei to do a capacity-building program focused on marine conservation. The participants had the opportunity to form collaborations and pitch a project at the end of the program, and some participants were awarded a small grant provided by a partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Brunei.

Reeler is a mobile app launched in 2020 that connects fishers directly with consumers for affordable, traceable, and fresher fish. This grant will help them increase their number of seller listings, fulfillment percentage, and overall sales of sustainable catch in the Hawaiian Islands.

Saltwater Classroom was founded in 2018 by Lexi Doudera, a marine biology major who understands that youth education is key to conserving coastal areas. She will build off the success of their SOA-supported curriculum on corals by conducting a  "Deep Dive" Workshop for 250 3rd-5th grade students focused on kelp forests in collaboration with non-profit partners. Participants will learn about kelp itself, kelp forests as an ecosystem, trophic cascade, particular species, as well as an introduction to kelp aquaculture and its role in today's ocean landscape. Behind coral reefs, kelp forests are the second most vulnerable ecosystem in the ocean and most people know very little about them.

This grant supports the work of Marulho, a for-profit social enterprise organization founded by Ocean Leader and Brazil Hub member, Beatriz Mattiuzzo, that recovers abandoned fishing nets and repurposes them into goods for sale. The outcome is to reduce ghost fishing and marine debris. Funding requested is for capacity building, video production and costs associated with removing debris.

This project funded the development of the SOA Timor-Leste Hub. In affiliation with the Timorese Youths Initiative for Development organization, they carried out two ocean literacy projects: an ocean story-telling competition and an educational webinar.

SOA Perú developed La Academia to empower more than 40 students to expand academic, citizenship, and leadership skills for ocean conservation and sustainability. During five weekends, 11 experts in different oceanic topics (Maritime Law, Marine Biodiversity, Underwater Photography, Political Participation, Sea Turtle Management, etc.) were able to share their experiences, supplementary materials, and relevant information on the different topics.

This project is part of a Master's degree thesis in Marine Ecology that explores the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) on the Mexican Tropical Eastern Pacific coast near the Gulf of California. With SOA funding, this project would use the Winkler method to conduct dissolved oxygen titrations to study the variability of the oxycline in relation to the presence of mesoscale processes in the seasonal cycle, including coastal currents. This would contribute to knowledge on OMZ permanence, distribution, and formation, which is pressing since OMZs are expected to expand under climate change.

In 2013, Mikoko Pamoja was founded: the first community-led project in the world to protect and restore mangroves through the sale of carbon credits. As part of the community commitments in Mikoko Pamoja, 4000 new mangrove seedlings are to be planted every year to qualify for quantifiable carbon credits. This project aims to test the Riley Encasement Technique, an innovative replanting method, in a bid to rehabilitate mangroves in the denuded high energy intertidal areas of Gazi Bay.

Led by organizational founder Steph Fine Sasse, The Plenary inspires students to become scientists through their “I am a Scientist” program, which highlights the life of an ocean-focused scientist by developing curricula and classroom materials that are disseminated within their network of 250 educators and 25,000 middle and high school students.